Star Wars Blu-Ray Release Thread - Page 2

Instead of just forgetting about the tuesday release, peolpe will run to their local stores next friday after work so they can be prepared for their Star Wars weekend.





honestly I don't know why they chose friday either.

Fridays are usually pay day??? This makes it more likely people will buy this week instead of buying something else and waiting. I remember seeing something posted a long time ago regarding off day releases, but can't remember what was said.

Got the UK release today.Just watched Phantom Menace.Yes DNR is obvious but the movie looks incredible.Blows the crappy dvd away.Thinking maybe its been done this way to bring it in line with the look of Clones and Sith.I'm certainly no expert on these matters.
The soundtrack is fantastic,cannot fault it.
The new Yoda looks great as well.

Cool! I was worried about when those newer ep1 pics surfaced with the DNR. Oh well. I'll take 1080p DNR'd a bit over the barely 480i EE'd to hell and back crapfest that was the dvd of ep1. And we get DTS-MA 6.1 lossless which negates any DNR for me.

I'm just gonna go out on a limb a say it's superstition.

Tuesday the 13th?

It's hard for me to comprehend DTS-MA with this movie.

Not sure about the rest of the globe, but X Men 1st Class was also released in the US on a Friday - last Friday, in fact.

It's all a conspiracy. I don't work on Tuesdays so movie releases usually work out perfectly for me. Now they're out to get me because they know I'm busy on Fridays and Saturdays.

Bastard Lucas....ruined your day off AND weekend!

They didn't want to go up against Citizen Kane. They know all the cools kids will be buying that instead.

I've had trouble with the SW flicks on my Sony S470, just like the Alien set and Avatar CE. No in-playback issues as such, just a random failure to load the disc which needs the power plug pulled and the machine restarted.

Oh, when I play the UK discs in Region A mode I get the usual FBI warning and MPAA rating screens. It's a good bet that they're the exact same platters (only with better disc art) as the ones you guys will be getting this week. The UK packaging only lists the English language options, but there are actually several more audio languages and even more subtitles.

is the uk packageing the same as the us book thing, or is there slimcases? if they are slimcases with indivudual cover art can we get some shots?

The UK version has the 9-disc "hub" design similar to the UK Aliens anthology packaging. The US has the slide out cardboard packaging.

Hence the word similar, not identical. Both employed the "hub" design vs. the slide design used by the US version.

Yes, I realize that. My point was the use of the "hub" design to hold the BDs in place, which both the digi and fold out use vs. the cardboard slide out.

In the other thread and in a UK review, there was mention of frozen grain in the originals from the Lowry process. Is this just in a few scenes?

Lol!

Yup, cause like all small indie productions, Star Wars might not sell well.

does anybody know if the japanese bluray will be different? sometimes the japanese will get those special stuff. like they did with lot of star wars movies on dvd etc

LOL well in these economic times you never know. I've seen more than a few posts saying they have to wait for payday on Friday to pick them up

great to see Amazon lower the price of the Complete Sage to $79.99 this past weekend...$13 a movie is a great deal

The Saga streets 9 years and 11 months to the day the DVD of Episode 1 came out.

I believe the Clone Wars Season 3 Set comes out Friday as well so it's a Craaazay Star Wars Weekend!

So I guess LucasFilm can say they released the Star Wars Saga on HD Disks within 10 years of the beginning prequels?


Or something to that effect????

I recall a 2002 Vanity Fair article that called the AOTC the most expensive indie flick ever produced, and called Lucas "Jim Jarmusch with a gargantuan budget".